Cooking with Bwog 2.0 rolls on with another pair of scrumptious recipes from our good friends at the Culinary Club. This week we’ve got a great ironically vegetarian salad and a chocolate-curry milkshake for those fearless eaters out there, along with a full slate of foodie events (including an ice cream event at NYU’s Chemistry […]

The famous and incredibly delicious second incarnation of Cooking with Bwog colloquially known as Cooking With Bwog 2.0 continues this week with more tasty ideas from our friends at the Culinary Society. Make either this savory Lasagne Bianco or the delicate Macadamia Coconut Pie in the Carman kitchen and Bwog will give you a huge […]

Make Easter and Passover last in your dorm all week long. Bwog’s culinary experts share some recipes that are not for the faint of heart  (or vegetarians, for that matter), but that can add some Emeril-status kick to your seder/Easter dinner. We’ve got two meat recipes—one challenging, one simpler. Happy eating, as always. The Recipe […]

We’ve done this cooking thing before, but we thought we’d, uh, kick it up a notch. Bwog obviously loves to eat, but there are others on campus with more refined palates. We turned to Matt Powell, a member of Columbia University Culinary Society, to guide us through gastronomy. Welcome to the return of Cooking with […]

Grab that spatula that you haven’t touched in ages and throw away those instant noodles–Cooking with Bwog makes a comeback! That’s right, it’ll be like having reheated leftovers, only better, and this time we’re not just talking vending machines or microwaves; maybe you’ll finally get the chance to use that rice vinegar your grandma mailed […]

Tomorrow, thousands of students will be sitting down to a more-elaborate-than-usual family dinner, most centered around a turkey. But is the traditional turkey the best main course for your get-together, or are there better options? Three Bwog writers make their cases. Turducken: A turducken is a fine southern tradition, an exercise in the economy of […]

After saving so much cash earlier today, Bwog thought to splurge a little.  To reward ourselves after a rigorous day of studying, Bwog was in the mood for something warm and hearty.  Unfortunately Casa Fiesta refried beans didn’t cut it.  A second trip to Westside, however, yielded the makings of a gourmet dinner.  If you’re […]

The Return of Cooking with Bwog – no cooking involved! The end is of summer is imminent (Monday, officially), which happens to nearly coincide with tomorrow’s Morningside Heights Farmers Market.  So, to celebrate the season’s end, Bwog recommends a no-cooking-involved summer salad. It also keeps well in your mini-fridge, so you’ll have ample opportunity to […]

In which Bwog Daily Editor Zach van Schouwen gives in to the demands of anonymous commenters and buys a plastic bag full of curry powder. In a previous edition of Cooking with Bwog, our high esteem for fried okra was called into question by a number of advocates of bhindi. Bhindi is the Hindi word […]

This week on Cooking with Bwog, Bwog Chef brings you a recipe from her time whipping up grub for the paying public. It’s a crab salad with citrus vinaigrette, tortilla chips, black bean salsa and guacamole. Enjoy! This recipe is a little more complicated than recipes usually posted in this column, but it shouldn’t be […]

This week on Cooking with Bwog we bring you solutions for dealing with those times when nothing in your fridge works with anything else. Questions or concerns? Send them to bwog@columbia.edu. 1. If it’s vegetable, it will probably go with other vegetables. Last week Bwog made dinner by cooking every veggie Bwog had in the […]

Welcome back to Cooking with Bwog. Bwog’s resident chef is doing a one-week tour at a Navy mess hall, but in her absence we present a full Southern meal, a recipe that was handed down for generations after this week’s chef’s family had forfeited all its Southern roots by moving to New England in the […]

This week on Cooking, Bwog’s chef has got her gaze on the Farmer’s market that happens outside of Lerner on Thursdays and Sundays. Nothing like tasty winter produce on a cold day like today. Some of the recipes are from Farmers’ market pamphlets from the NYS Dept. of Health; others are from Cooking’s own repertoire. […]

Ever since it started to snow last night, Cooking has been craving cocoa. Bwogger Maryam Parhizkar suggested the following home-spun hot chocolate recipe. Mexican Hot Chocolate 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa 1/4 cup sugar 1 tsp ground cinnamon, or alternatively 3-4 sticks of cinnamon 3 tsp vanilla 1 quart of milk Combine the cocoa, sugar, and […]

Welcome back to Cooking with Bwog, the cooking column that brings you recipes that are healthy, cheap, easy and/or cute. This week, Cooking brings you a tasty recipe that she used to make with her mom. Before divulging the recipe, I think I should justify why I’m posting something that I got from Real Simple. […]